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smallcircles

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I'm Arnold Schrijver (he/him). Social coder. #FOSS, #HumaneTech and #SocialWeb advocate.

I help foster #Solutions that improve #Wellbeing, #Freedom and #Society

Let's #ReimagineSocial and envision a #Peopleverse where archipelagos, built by the #Commons, unfold the #HumanWeb. Delightful Realms of Creation, where only our dreams may hold us back.

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kde, (edited ) to kde
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You heard . Deep down you knew this was coming. Now all your art are belong to them. Time to move on to better things...

Kreative Suite

  • Krita is your new design/painting app
  • Kdenlive will give you video-editing powers
  • glaxnimate adds 2D vector animations to you videos
  • digiKam organises your collection images

https://kde.org/for/creators/
Also:

  • Inkscape - create sophisticated vector-graphic designs
  • Scribus - layout like a pro
  • GIMP - need we say more
  • Blender - ditto

@kde

smallcircles,
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@kde @kde

See also this great curated list of creative tools collected by @ADHDefy

https://delightful.club/delightful-creative-tools

If you have more such fine projects, then create an issue or PR. The link to the repository is at the top of the delightful page.

impactology, to random
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So interesting, segmenting video via mindmaps instead of timestamps
https://akomaps.com/

"Ako Maps is a suite of learning tools that links visual diagrams to video lessons.. Ako Maps can be 'linked' to lessons. Browse the map, then click a topic to navigate directly to that topic in the video"

smallcircles,
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@impactology @stephenpa @uclab_potsdam @khinsen

I really like those. Esp. how 1) enables 2) and shifts focus to be intentional, triggers imagination and creativity, stimulates collaboration and co-creation.

I was inspired by @tastapod https://cupid.dev to take the concept of #JoyfulCoding one step further into the holistic idea of #JoyfulCreation involving every creator. And instead of #UI and #UX breathe life into the 'stalled' field of Social experience design #SX as a design method.

smallcircles,
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@impactology @stephenpa @uclab_potsdam

The https://mercuryos.com case study is interesting here.

It asks question like "Why do we stick to these 'traditional' UI's so much, like having the equivalent of a messy desktop, or even organizing everything in hierarchical file cabinets?"

@bret during his career also made a ton of great presentations putting such questions to people.

Really inspiring.

In the app boundaries (silo's) we have now, disappear.

smallcircles,
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@impactology @stephenpa @uclab_potsdam @khinsen @tastapod

There's this paper (and others) written on by Toshihiko Yamakami in 2012 (I don't have access to them all). SX never picked up, far as I can tell.

https://fedi.foundation/2022/09/social-networking-reimagined

Social Coding movement isn't a 'community' and grows organically as a DoOcracy (or does not, future will tell). I made SX part of it. Where we see a SX perspective missing is e.g. in the evolution of the Fediverse, where everyone creates app siloes to connect.

smallcircles,
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@impactology @stephenpa @uclab_potsdam

That is really cool. Esp. if this would be 2-way interactive, inviting the active participation of citizens and allowed e.g people to crowdsource information gathering, or discussing with argument maps, etc.

smallcircles,
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@impactology @stephenpa @uclab_potsdam

Yes, indeed ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

Talking about that, I was wondering about the of "I Want a Better Catastrophy" (didn't have a deeper look with that perspective).

One problem with infinite canvases is that it should also offer all the navigation paths in a proper way to people using a screenreader.

smallcircles,
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@impactology @stephenpa

..who are on the fedi at @uclab_potsdam

I agree that this is a great visualisation, and wonderful work in general done at Urban Complexity Lab.

The flowchart app is made with Vue + Js and available at: https://github.com/uclab-potsdam/interactive-flowchart

smallcircles,
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@impactology @stephenpa @uclab_potsdam

Agreed!

I just created a post at movement on what I called temporarily "Storytelling UI":

https://discuss.coding.social/t/radifedi-storybook-of-radically-innovative-federated-ux/323/4

For designs that have:

The is process-oriented, focuses on the interactions between people.

It is a dream, I know, but a nice one to dream about ๐Ÿ˜…

smallcircles,
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@impactology @stephenpa @uclab_potsdam

Oh, this is very interesting. I will put this on the pile of stuff to give further thought, thank you!

Btw, you may be interested in collective at https://malleable.systems

Who have a forum at https://forum.malleable.systems and a matrix chatroom.

People there, like @khinsen are using which is also a nice idea to make highly interactive . Though I find the a bit overwhelming (can be better?)

https://gtoolkit.com

hrefna, to random
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There's a design pattern that is (somewhat tongue in cheek) named multi-single-tenant.

The idea is basically that you have individually created (and often provisioned) systems that are run on the same base system, sharing many of the same core pieces of infrastructure but in a way that keeps strict separation between them.

So I can deprovision someone and that's basically a wipeout. No tracking data to weird places, it's all under one provisioning handle.

But, we share infrastructure.

1/

smallcircles,
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@hrefna

What interests me here is the upcoming trend to build local-first clients, and how these may fit into a social web. Of course there are servers in that picture, but if the social web were service-oriented and the client an 'orchestrator' of services, it would be a whole different paradigm.

You get rid of the "technical self-hosting" problem.. just install a client. You can deal with the ownership of data issue.. at the client.

And the social web would be a 'marketplace' of services.

smallcircles, to fediverse
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Towards Federated Key Transparency by @soatok

> "In late 2022, I blogged about the work needed to develop a specification for end-to-end encryption for the #fediverse. I sketched out some of the key management components on GitHub, and then the public work abruptly stalled. A few of you have wondered whatโ€™s the deal with that. This post covers why this effort stalled, what Iโ€™m proposing we do next."

https://soatok.blog/2024/06/06/towards-federated-key-transparency/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40606503

#ActivityPub #E2EE

sovtechfund, to random
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Conferences and events this week with STF's co-founders, great ways to hear about our mission and ideas:
๐Ÿ—“ Tuesday, 4 June 2024: Adriana Groh will be at the APELL (the European Open Source Software Business Association) conference in Berlin, speaking on the panel โ€œEngage in Open Source Policy Discourse: Past, Present, and Futureโ€ with @OpenForumEurope's Astor Nummelin Carlberg, APELLโ€™s Peter Ganten, moderated by @OSBA's Miriam Seyffarth
https://apell.info/conference/

smallcircles, (edited )
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@sovtechfund @krakenbuerger @NGICommons @openfuture @mirkoboehm @linuxfoundation

Info on the first event is at: https://commons.ngi.eu/event/ngi-commons-workshop-2024/

There's also an afterwork event: https://commons.ngi.eu/event/open-tech-afterwork-amsterdam/

Do you have a link to more info on the Upstream event?

Update: Upstream event is at https://upstream.live/# (thanks @luis_in_brief )

smallcircles,
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@luis_in_brief @sovtechfund

Ah, nice. Thank you!

hrefna, to random
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It'd be very convenient if I could negotiate with ants.

There are a group of western harvester ants in a rather inconvenient spot and I'd love if they could move likeโ€ฆ 20' over. Or a few hundred feet in any of three different directions.

But right where they are is not ideal.

smallcircles,
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@hrefna

I saw an item on Dutch news not long ago about how invasive ant species in the Netherlands form supercolonies with millions of ants stretching out under complete street blocks and only growing further.

One of these is the Tapinoma Nigerrimum ant coming from the mediteranean with the warmer weather.

They do invade houses and apparently are attract to electricity. They also dig up sand for their colony, causing roads to get uneven or even have sinkholes in them.

https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Tapinoma_nigerrimum

smallcircles, to foss
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Advocating for to adopt a OSS-first approach and use as their example of a secret store integration in upcoming RFC implementation..

https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/issues/2190#issuecomment-2141124236

@linuxfoundation projects are already seen as overly corporate, and sticking as much as possible to at least and preferably even in docs + elaborated examples would help to not further reinforce that notion.

smallcircles,
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And great news. discussed the issue and decided:

  • will not be the reference implementation.

  • Wasmcloud looks forward to presenting as one of their main integrations once it reaches GA.

  • The awareness that Vault constitutes "faux-pen source" made Wasmcloud implement automated license checks.

Read the details in this comment on the RFC:

https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/issues/2190#issuecomment-2143021790

@linuxfoundation

smallcircles,
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And great news. discussed the issue and decided:

  • will not be the reference implementation.

  • Wasmcloud looks forward to presenting as one of their main integrations once it reaches GA.

  • The awareness that Vault constitutes "faux-pen source" made Wasmcloud implement automated license checks.

Read the details in this comment on the RFC:

https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/issues/2190#issuecomment-2143021790

@linuxfoundation

impactology, to random
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Oh this is like miro and notion (a less bloated one) in one

"Scrintal is an easy-to-use digital canvas to convert your creative ideas into structured knowledge"

Direct manipulation arrow interaction for linking notes instead of markdown for backlinking
https://scrintal.com

image/png

smallcircles,
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@impactology

Nice! and are great. But what we would really need is proper alternatives to those platforms.

I've been looking around for those, but nothing I found even comes close.

Meanwhile these commercial SaaS platforms are becoming ever more popular, getting deeply integrated into many daily processes and workflows.

Ah, imagine.. decentralized, self-hostable Miro alternative on the Fediverse ๐Ÿ˜Š would be lovely.

smallcircles,
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@impactology

> Oh how so?

They're part of a grassroots movement. Initiative are too inward-focused / individualistic. Everyone goes their own direction, 'equaling each other out', not building pressure.

> federation of Worker Cooperatives

Yes, but still does not fit the social dynamics of a grassroots movement. You get larger organized/governed structures, but these do not scale well. You get all kinds of issues with power dynamics & leadership.

Protocols may support spontaneous emergence.

smallcircles,
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@impactology

Btw, when it comes to mind mapping tools, there are a lot of open source alternatives:

https://alternativeto.net/software/scrintal

Yet, imho, where many of those drop the ball is in offering practical, easy-to-use, real streamlined and polished UI.

smallcircles,
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@impactology

Yes, and their "exit to community" as well (though I dunno if that is finished just yet).

On the whole a large set of big challenges ail the FOSS community, where imho it can be said to be inherently unsustainable. The FOSS software is a huge success, has eaten the world, but the making of it is.. umm, in need of reform.

smallcircles,
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@impactology yes, I think that trends in the right direction. Sustainable businesses fitting a post-growth economy.

The social web may support commons-based peer production (esp. considering that any indirect or direct human interaction is social networking use case).

Social networking based on open standards / protocols can then serve to connect all these fragmented initiatives together. Imho this fragmentation is inhibiting to large extent the empowerment of these innovative approaches.

smallcircles,
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@impactology one does not exclude the other. I consider "Sustainable FOSS" to be where devs can earn a decent living as well, if they desire to. Yes, the code can be "libre and gratis", but also paid in some form or other.

smallcircles,
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@impactology

Very often you see that these federations of cooperatives / commmunities / other organizations when they intend to form collaborations, they create this partnership network. But in practice it mostly ends up that each of them shows a "logo wall" of whom they partner with, yet this only goes skin deep and often isn't even mutually indicated.

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